This year, our eyes beheld some truly innovative and mind-blowing cosplay. We saw gender-swapped characters, Evil Dead hats, and elaborate costumes that included as many as five cosplayers. Not to mention Rockabilly Batman, Superhero Princesses, Furry Jesus, and a heap of characters straight out of Brian K. Vaughan's Saga.

We sat down and skimmed through every convention gallery, cosplaying website and halloween how-to guide and came up with our picks for the very best cosplay creations from 2012. Here they are.

Skimpy Supers give us something to cheer about. Commenters said that this image was a perfect storm mashup of San Diego Comic-Con and San Diego Gay Pride, which occur very close to one another in date (hence the inspiration).